Summer Festival season is coming, y’all! And that means festival announcements. So let’s get to it, right?
Newport Jazz Festival will be returning to Rhode Island’s Fort Adams State Park for its 69th edition. This year’s edition will continue the festival’s long-held tradition of hosting once in a lifetime performances that can only come as a result of Newport’s unique alchemy of intimacy and artistic community.
The 69th Edition will take place August 4, 2023 – August 6, 2023 and will feature an eclectic and acclaimed lineup of artists including the legendary Herbie Hancock, Diana Krall, Charles Lloyd, Vijay Iyer, Jon Batiste, and Kamasi Washington, as well as a collection of Grammy-nominated and-winning artists including Samara Joy, DOMi and JD Beck. The lineup also includes Big Freedia, Thundercat, DJ Pee .Wee (a.k.a. Anderson .Paak), Big Gigantic, Alfa Mist, Cautious Clay, Durand Jones, and The War and Treaty.
It’s an annual tradition for the festival to host special ensembles. And this year’s festival will include Newport Jazz artistic director Christian McBride’s annual Jam Dawn, MoodSwing, Scary Goldings featuring John Scofield, Superblue, Orrin Evans Quintet and the Bill Charlap Trio.
With Memorial Day Weekend right around the corner, Newport Jazz Festival organizers announced some exciting new additions to the lineup that include JOVM mainstays The Soul Rebels featuring Rakim and Talib Kweli, Adi Oasis, Angel Bat Dawid & Tha Brothahood, Claudia Acuña, and more. A full list of the complete lineup is below.
3-day, 2-day and single-day tickets, as well as 3-day, 2-day and single-day parking passes are currently available through DICE. Full pricing is listed below. Children under 10 are free with a maximum of 2 children attending per ticketed adult. Children 10 and over will need to purchase a full priced admission ticket. For more information go to https://dice.fm/promoters/3gng
TICKET PRICING
3-Day Full Price General Admission: $281.19 (includes fees)
2-Day Saturday & Sunday General Admission: $193.64 (includes fees)
Single-Day General Admission: $100.94 (includes fees)
3-Day Parking: $69.01 (includes fees)
2-Day Parking: $46.35 (includes fees)
Single-Day Parking: $25.75 (includes fees)
NEWPORT JAZZ 2023 LINEUP
Friday
Joe Russo’s Almost Dead with Kamasi Washington
Kamasi Washington
DJ Pee .Wee (Anderson .Paak)
Soulive
DOMi & JD Beck
Immanuel Wilkins Quartet
Big Freedia
Alfa Mist
Butcher Brown
Endea Owens & The Cookout
Lakecia Benjamin and Phoenix
Julius Rodriguez
Saturday
Jon Batiste
Thundercat
Big Gigantic Does Jazz
Christian McBride’s Jam Jawn
Charles Lloyd New Quartet
Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer, Shahzad Ismaily
Julian Lage
Superblue: Kurt Elling & Charlie Hunter with Nate Smith & Huntertones Horns
Orrin Evans Quintet
The War and Treaty
Keyon Harrold
James Brandon Lewis
Sunday
Herbie Hancock
Diana Krall
Samara Joy
Redman, Mehldau, McBride, Blade: A Moodswing Reunion
Scary Goldings featuring John Scofield
Cimafunk
Cautious Clay
Somi
Pedrito Martinez
Bill Charlap Trio
Charles McPherson Quintet
NEW ADDITIONS
The Soul Rebels featuring Rakim & Talib Kweli
Marcus Miller
Dave Holland New Quartet
Adi Oasis
Derrick Hodge
Armstrong Now: Louis at Newport
Angel Bat Dawid & Tha Brothahood
Bobby Watson All-Star Quintet
Jennifer Hartswick & Nick Cassarino Duo
Claudia Acuna
Melvis Santa & Jazz Orishas
Lauren Sevian’s LSQ
Camille Thurman with The Darrell Green Quartet
Matthew Whitaker
Ticket information is available here.
